Condition Continued: The pages are in very nice condition, one had a thin vertical crease. I didn't find any corner creases or placeholder creases. I did find one instance of a thin tear off the top edge of one page, not quite reaching the title of the chapter at the top. The pages have a nice supple feel to them. There are four full-page illustrations, including the frontispiece. They all look very clean. The frontispiece is a little less tight at the bottom half of its juncture with the title page, no cracks or spaces, but it pulled off a light bit of the surface paper from the inner edge of the title page, nothing dramatic, no tears. One of the other illustrations is cleanly detached at its bottom third. It feels very solidly bound over its top two thirds. That same illustration has a little bit of crinkling at its middle area just adjacent to its juncture with the facing text page. The other two illustrations are in very good condition. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere.

The Century Co., New York and London, 1923. Hardcover. Written by Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. Illustrated by Emilie Benson Knipe. First Edition (NAP, one of the ways of identifying first editions with The Century Co is NAP). The 1923 edition is very rare (I found only one other for sale), and there were quite a few printings of this book over the years, a seventh printing in 1938, another one in 1941. The authors were married, Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. Not surprisingly, Ms. Emilie Knipe illustrated the book. She began her art studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago in 1915 and exhibited at various art centers throughout the country. Although she focused on book illustration after the turn of the century, for several years she also specialized in floral painting.  She was a member of the All-Illinois Society of the Fine Arts. 

'Alden Arthur Knipe  was an American football player and coach. He served as the sixth head football coach at the University of Iowa, serving from 1898 to 1902 and compiling a record of 30-11-4. Knipe was also the first head baseball coach at Iowa, coaching two seasons from 1900 to 1901 and tallying a mark 25-8. Knipe played college football at the University of Pennsylvania.' His Wikipedia profile identifies him as 'one of the great football players of the nineteenth century. He played at the University of Pennsylvania for the legendary George Washington Woodruff. In 1893, Knipe scored a touchdown for the Penn Quakers in a game against a Walter Camp-coached Yale team. It was the first points Yale had surrendered since 1890, a span of 35 consecutive games, though some sources attribute the famous touchdown to fellow Penn halfback Winchester Osgood. In 1894, Knipe was the team captain for the Quakers, leading Penn to a perfect 12–0 record. For his efforts, he was named as a first team All-American that season. After retiring from coaching, he began to write novels for older children. Using the pen name Timothy Shea, he also wrote an adult novel, Sarah and Son, which was made into a successful motion picture of the same name.'